If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world. ~ J.R.R.Tolkien

The most important things are the hardest things to say. they are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when theyíre brought out. ~ Stephen King

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. ~ Arthur Balfour

We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be. ~ Angelina Grimke

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. ~ Forest Witcraft

What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then. ~ Fred Rogers, Dartmouth,2002

The things that matter the most in this world, they can never be held in our hand. ~ Gloria Gaither